Geographies of escape. A fact-finding and didactic survey on asylum seekers at the CARA of Castelnuovo di Porto – Rome

This article focuses on the geographical knowledge of their migratory routes of the asylum seekers of the Castelnuovo di Porto Reception Centre for Asylum Seekers (CARA), located near Rome. Through an assisted self-administration of a 44 question semi-structured questionnaire, school courses and geographic content and subjects in each country were reconstructed to verify any possible connection between types of travel, spatial behavior and geographical knowledge acquired by migrants. The questionnaire, translated into English, French, Arabic, Somali, Tigrinya, Urdu was given to 200 guests, who were asked to draw a mental map concerning their migratory path, making it possible to show the idea of the world that pushes migrants towards countries of asylum.